I installed Puppy Linux 215 CE to the hard drive, and added grub to the mbr, so it boots up, no floppy or cd required. Then I upgraded (a complete clean install) to Puppy V4.00 (k 2.6.21.7). Same type install, and everything but sound is working fine.

I also tried Vector Linux , which seemed to install ok, but I switched back to Puppy.

I know the hardware is old. It is an older Compaq Presario laptop with an AMD k6 cpu. It could be as much as 10 years old.

The system has only 96MB RAM. I created a 192MB swap partition, and the rest (about 2GB) as ext2 (or ext3, not sure, and the laptop is not here).

My friend wanted something to access the internet (which is working great using a PCMCIA card). He also wanted a word processor. He was about to install WIN98, but I talked him into trying Linux.

Got my hands on a Compaq Armada in rather good condition, PIII with 320 megs and a brand new harddrive installed.
Decided that Gnome had gone downhill since its marriage to Ubuntu so I installed BLAG 9002 - the best thing I ever did :D
No worries with the default install, the 2.4 kernel and Mozilla are just about the only packages I keep up2date.

I actually started to build GNOME 1.2.4 on the latest Slackware - to relive the old magic. It didn't like gcc4 so I had to start patching and replacing system libs. A pain to get installed, but damn it's fast!

BLAG10000 was the last BLAG to use the 2.4 kernel. Perhaps you could give that a spin, for kicks. It is ancient though. Maybe peanut or DSL or some of the ones that target really really old machines would fare better.

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